Professor Andrew Kahn FBA

18th-century literature and thought in Russia and Europe; comparative Enlightenment historiography; Russian poetry (Pushkin, Mandelstam, Brodsky) and its intellectual, political, and cultural contexts; practice of literary history
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Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2019
Subjects
Literature

Current post

University of Oxford Professor of Russian Literature

St Edmund Hall, Oxford Fellow and Tutor

Past appointments

ENS-Paris/ITEM (CNRS), LabexTransferS Visiting Professor

2018 - 2019

Columbia University Visiting Professor

2009 - 2010

University of Oxford Reader in Russian Literature

2008 - 2011

University of California, Berkeley University Lecturer in Russian; Visiting Associate Professor

2003 - 2004

Publications

All the World on a Page: A Critical Anthology of Modern Russian Poetry

Andrew Kahn and Mark Lipovetsky - Published in 2025 by Princeton University Press

Mandelstam's Worlds: Poetry, Politics, and Identity in a Revolutionary Age

Andrew Kahn - Published in 2020 by Oxford University Press

A History of Russian Literature

Andrew Kahn, Mark Lipovetsky, Irina Reyfman, and Stephanie Sandler - Published in 2018 by Oxford University Press

Selected Letters of Catherine the Great

Andrew Kahn and Kelsey Rubin-Detlev - Published in 2018 by Oxford University Press

Pushkin’s Lyric Intelligence

Andrew Kahn - Published in 2008 by Oxford University Press

Nikolai Karamzin: Letters of a Russian Traveller

Andrew Kahn - Published in 2003 by Voltaire Foundation

How did Catherine the Great’s reign shape Imperial Russian history?

30 Jul 2020 Professor Andrew Kahn FBA

Professor Andrew Kahn FBA explores the ways that Catherine the Great impacted Imperial Russian history.

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